William Cortenus Schenck

William Cortenus Schenck (11 January 1773-12 January 1821) was a member of the Ohio Senate from 5 December 1803 to 2 December 1804.

Biography
William Cortenus Schenck was born in Freehold, Monmouth County, New Jersey in 1773, and he graduated from Princeton University in 1794 and became a surveyor. In 1793, he moved to Cincinnati in the Northwest Territory, and he surveyed and laid out Franklin, Ohio, which he later made his home. He served as secretary of the Northwest Territory Legislative Council from 1799 to 1802, and he settled in Franklin, where he fathered James F. Schenck and Robert C. Schenck, two future American Civil War commanders. Schenck went on to serve in the State Senate from 1803 to 1804 and as a Major-General in the militia during the War of 1812, and he laid out Toledo, Ohio in 1816. He served in the State House from 1820 to 1821, and he died of swamp fever in 1821.